Event Description:Eduardo Halfon was born in Guatemala and is the author of several novels and collections of short fiction, including Esto no es una pipa, Saturno (2003), La Pirueta (winner of the José María de Pereda Prize) and El boxeador polaco (translated into English as The Polish Boxer), which the Los Angeles Times described as “deeply accessible, yet elusive, like reality.” He grew up bilingual, and chooses to write in Spanish.